1. Li, H. tRNA and complexes (2007) Current Opinion in Structural Biology 17(3). (in press)

2. Oruganti, S., Zhang, Y., Terns, R. P., Terns, M. P., Li, H., Yang, W., and Li, H. “Alternative conformations of the archaeal Nop56/58-fibrillarin complex imply induced-fit assembly of box C/D RNPs” Journal of Molecular Biology (in press).

3. Min, D., Song, X., and Li, H. Yang, W. “In-line conformation plays a modest role in an enzyme-catalyzed RNA cleavage: a free energy simulation study”. Nucleic Acids Research (in press).

4. Phipps, K., and Li, H. (2007) Protein-RNA Interactions at Crystal Packing Surfaces Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 67(1):121-127.

5. Calvin, K. and Li, H. (2006) Switching on RNA cleavage activity of a splicing endonuclease by protein engineering Journal of Molecular Biology 366(2):642-649.

6. Song, X. Calvin, K. and Li, H. (2006) Structural Mechanism of Introns Recognition and Cleavage by an RNA Splicing Endonuclease Science 312(5775): 906-910.

7. Trotta, C.R., Paushkin, S.V., Patel, M., Li., H. and Peltz, S.W. (2006) A composite active site for cleavage of pre-tRNA by the eukaryal tRNA splicing endonuclease Nature 441(7091): 375-377.

8. Rashid, R., Liang, B., Baker, D.L., Youssef, O.A., He, Y., Phipps, K., Terns, R. M., Terns, M., and Li, H. (2006) Crystal Structure of a Cbf5-Nop10-Gar1 complex and implication in RNA-guided pseudouridylation and dykeratosis congenita. Molecular Cell 21(2):249-260.

9. Randau, L., Calvin, K., Hall, M., Yuan, J., Podar, M., Li, H., and Soll, D. (2005) The heteromeric Nanoarchaeum equitans splicing endonuclease cleaves noncanonical bulge-helix-bulge motifs of joined tRNA halves. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102(50):17934-17939.

10. Calvin, K. Hall, M. Xu, F. and Xue, S., and Li, H. (2005) Structure and Function of an Ancient RNA Splicing Endonuclease with Broad Substrate Specificity. Journal of Molecular Biology 353(5):952-960.

11. Oruganti, S., Zhang, Y., and Li, H. (2005) Structural Comparison of Yeast snoRNP and Spliceosomal Protein Snu13p with Its Homologs. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication 333 (2): 550-554.

12. Aittaleb, M., Visone, T., Fenley, M. O., and Li, H. (2004) Structural and Thermodynamic Evidence for a Stabilizing Role of Nop5p in S-adenosyl-L-methionine Binding to Fibrillarin. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279 (40): 41822-41829.  

13. Zhang, Y. and Li, H. (2004) Structure Determination of a Truncated Dimeric RNA Splicing Endonuclease in Pseudo-centered Space Group P2₁2₁2. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography D60, 447-452.

14. Moore, T., Zhang, Y., Fenley, M. O., and Li, H. (2004) Molecular Basis of Box C/D RNA-protein Interactions: Co-crystal Structure of the Archaeal sRNP Initiation Complex Structure 12(5): 807-18.

15. Aittaleb, M., Rashid, R., Chen, Q., Palmer, J. R., Daniels, C. J., and Li, H. (2003) Structure and function of archaeal box C/D sRNP core proteins Nature Structure Biology 10, 256-63.

16. Rashid, R., Aittaleb, M., Chen, Q., Spiegel, K., Demeler, B., and Li, H. (2003) Functional requirement for symmetric assembly of archaeal box C/D small ribonucleoprotein particles Journal of Molecular Biology 333, 295-306.

17. Lima, S., Hildenbrand, J., Korostelev, A., Hattman, S., and Li, H. (2002) Crystal structure of an RNA helix recognized by a zinc-finger protein: an 18-bp duplex at 1.6 Å resolution RNA 8, 924-32.

18. Story, R. M., Li, H., and Abelson, J. N. (2001) Crystal structure of a DEAD box protein from the hyperthermophile Methanococcus jannaschii Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A 98, 1465-70.

19. Li, H., and Abelson, J. (2000) Crystal structure of a dimeric archaeal splicing endonuclease J Mol Biol 302, 639-48.

20. Abelson, J., Trotta, C. R., and Li, H. (1998) tRNA splicing (minireview) Journal of Biological Chemistry 273, 12685-12688.

21. Li, H., Trotta, C. R., and Abelson, J. (1998) Crystal structure and evolution of a transfer RNA splicing enzyme Science 280, 279-284.

22. Li, H., Dunn, J. J., Luft, B. J., and Lawson, C. L. (1997) Crystal structure of Lyme disease antigen outer surface protein A complexed with an Fab Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A 94, 3584-3589.

23. Li, H., and Lawson, C. L. (1995) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi outer surface protein A (OspA) complexed with a murine monoclonal antibody Fab fragment Journal of Structural Biology 115, 335-337.

24. Li, H., Hallows, W. H., Punzi, J. S., Pankiewicz, K. W., Watanabe, K. A., and Goldstein, B. M. (1994) Crystallographic studies of isosteric NAD analogues bound to alcohol dehydrogenase: specificity and substrate binding in two ternary complexes Biochemistry 33, 11734-11744.

25. Goldstein BM, Li H, Jones JP, Bell JE, Zeidler J, Pankiewicz KW, Watanabe KA. (1994) CNAD: a potent and specific inhibitor of alcohol dehydrogenase. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 37, 392-399.

26. Goldstein, B. M., Li, H., Hallows, W. H., Langs, D. A., Franchetti, P., Cappellacci, L., and Grifantini, M. (1994) C-glycosyl bond conformation in oxazofurin: crystallographic and computational studies of the oxazole analogue of tiazofurin Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 37, 1684-1688.

27. Li, H., Hallows, W. H., Punzi, J. S., Marquez, V. E., Carrell, H. L., Pankiewicz, K. W., Watanabe, K. A., and Goldstein, B. M. (1994) Crystallographic studies of two alcohol dehydrogenase-bound analogues of thiazole-4-carboxamide adenine dinucleotide (TAD), the active anabolite of the antitumor agent tiazofurin Biochemistry 33, 23-32.

28. Li, H., Kennedy, S. D., and Goldstein, B. M. (1993) Solid-state and solution conformations of isotiazofurin: crystallographic, computational and ¹H NMR studies Acta Crystallogrography B49, 729-738.

29. Li, H., and Goldstein, B. M. (1992) Carboxamide group conformation in the nicotinamide and thiazole-4-carboxamide rings: implications for enzyme binding Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 35, 3560-3567.